2025 Call

ISFG Short Term Fellowhips awarded in 2025

Fellowship awards 2025

Francesc Callafel, Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF) Departament de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut (UPF), Barcelona - Catalonia - Spain

Visiting at Institute of Legal Medicine Innsbruck, Austria

Topic: Bringing up to date the mtDNA reference phylogeny

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Henrik Nordtorp, Department of Forensic Sciences, Oslo University Hospital, Norway

Visting at Department of Forensic Genetics and Forensic Toxicology, National Board of Forensic Medicine, Sweden

Topic: Computational methods in forensic investigative genetic genealogy (FIGG)

Pending →

Sanne Aalbers, National Institute of Standards and Technology (and University of Maryland), USA

Visiting at Department of Forensic Genetics and Forensic Toxicology, National Board of Forensic Medicine, Sweden

Topic: Impact of linkage disequilibrium (LD) on forensic SNP-based analysis

Pending →

Kris van der Gaag, Netherlands Forensic Institute, The Netherlands

Visiting at National Bioforensic Analysis Center (NBFAC, MD - US) / FBI (VA - US), USA

Topic: Validation and implementation of Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) for Forensic Investigative Genetic Genealogy (FIGG)

Pending →

Kathrin Broderius, Institute for Legal Medicine, University Hospital Cologne, Germany

Visiting at Forensic Science SA, Attorney-General's Department, Adelaide, Australia

Topic: Bayesian networks (BN) applied to activity level evaluation of forensic traces

Pending →

Mathieu Gabut, Laboratoire de Police Scientifique de Lyon. Service National de Police Scientifique - SNPS, France

Visiting at National Board of Forensic Medicine and Linköping University, Sweden

Topic: Capture-based SNP-typing strategy for IGG analyses

Pending →

Charla Marshall, DNAID Services, LLC, USA

Visiting at Department of Forensic Genetics and Forensic Toxicology, National Board of Forensic Medicine, Sweden

Topic: Planing the next phase of the FORCE consortium’s research

Pending →

Micaela Longaray, Laboratory of Forensic Genetics of hte Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF), Argentina

Visiting at Forensic Genetics Unit of the Institute of Forensic Sciences at the University of Santiago de Compostela (FGUIFS-USC), Spain

Topic: Microhaplotype analysis using MPS technology

Pending →

Amaia Cabrejas, Forensic Sciences Institute “Luis Concheiro” (INCIFOR) of the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Visiting at Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria

Topic: alternative DNA extraction protocols for degraded bones

Pending →

Nathan Scudder, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Visiting at McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Topic: Ethical use of forensic DNA databases and related capabilities

Pending →